Author's note: That had to be one of the better cliffhangers that I've come up with, ne? I won't keep you guessing much longer because you'll find out what happened by scrolling down. Anyways thanks for all the reviews from last chapter! I also like this hits system they got going here, lets me know how many people read it and never reviewd :P Doesn't really matter anyways here it is ...
Reviewer responses:
I'm just going to say this to everyone: the reviews for last chapter were about the best ones that I've recieved and so I've decided to try to make a longer chapter and once again thank you to everyone, even those sneeky little people who don't review ;)
She takes the pills to fall asleep
and dreams that she's invisible
Tormented dreams she stays awake
recalls when she was capable...
Oh Vivica I wish you well
I'll sit right here I'll never tell
no tender scar no twist of fate
will save you now
"Vivica" By: Jack off Jill
How long is the night?
Chapter 26
The colossal corruption and the despairing demise
I'm free...
Vivica's body crumpled to the ground before Leon, the only bullet in the gun that was for him was now lodged into her skull and she was happy. Happiness was the last thing she felt before everything went black and she relaxed for the first time in ages.
Leon's eyes were wide with surprise. He was expecting to see a bullet fly out of the gun that Vivica held, but instead was greeted with a light splash of blood across his face and body as the teenager fell down in a lifeless mound.
He quickly kneeled down and checked for a pulse even though he knew there was none. Gently, Leon took the gun out of her grasp and placed it to the side. He wrapped his hands around her left arm and pulled her over so her face wasn't burried into the dirt.
There was a smile plastered on her face, the only thing that Leon could really make out on it anyways. Leon let go of her arm and stood up as Ashley neared. He turned around and silently began walking back to the others, ignoring Ashley for the time being.
The mindless zombies seemed to head back towards Raccoon City once they all heard the gunshot ring out. They stumbled past each other, all intent on returning to their rightful place near the outskirts of the remade city.
Jill spotted Leon and Ashley coming closer and grabbed Michael by the shirt, then they walked off to greet them. Jill opened her mouth to say 'hi' but Leon beat her to it, although his greeting wasn't all that pleasent.
"That sick bastard, he planned this didn't he?"
"Planned what?" Jill questioned. "Where's your little friend?"
She was quickly sent a look by Ashley that indicated that she had just said the wrong thing so the ex STARS member braced herself for the worst, but Leon never said anything except for one question as if he was trying to avoid Jill's earlier ones.
"How far to Raccoon City?"
"About a couple of hours."
Leon looked at everyone before he spoke.
"We need to be there in daylight. It's getting dark already and Wesker will want to use this as an advantage for his so we'll have to wait."
"Okay," the others said in union.
The made a makeshift camp, all the while keeping to themselves and not even muttering a single word. Leon went off somewhere to go find a proper place for Vivica's lifeless body as the others simply sat around the fire that they had created and hopped that things would go their way tomorrow.
Sudden pain racked up his arm. He could feel something dangerous growing inside him. This wasn't supposed to happen, especially at a time like this when he needed to bring order to this place, not transform into some mindless beast.
He felt another lurch of pain and watched behind his shaded eyes as he pulled up his black sleeve and saw the drastic change in his skin complexion. It was a sick color, almost red but not quite. Then he spotted the cause of the pain move up his arm even more, this time the pain came from his side as the Infinity virus combined with the unkown virus that was already injected into his body.
He was about to become some hellish monster if the side effects didn't stop. He wanted the power, not the pain.
Cursing under his breath he went to a monitor and checked the room where Ada was being held. He had put a new camera in there because he knew that despite his warnings, she would get out again and he couldn't have that.
She was lying in a corner, knees tucked to her chest as her head was lowered and resting on them. Ada didn't seem to move at all so Wesker decided that it was safe enough to leave. He opened up the door that was right beside the one to enter the room where Ada was and stepped out.
His movemts seemed to cause the virus to act up again. This time the pain was so powerful that it toppled him to the ground and he had to result in letting out a hushed cry of pain. When he felt that it had passed he continued to walk down the hallway, not noticing the limp that he now had as the virus slowly took over.
Ada chuckled to herself when she heard Wesker in pain. She knew that this would happened sooner or later and was glad that it happened at a time like this. She still continued to keep silent when she heard a crashing noise and several voices echoed down the hallway.
Getting up, Ada went towards the door and pressed her ear against it, holding her breath in the process.
"Sir, we have gotten news that the group is on their way and will be here shortly."
"Get the bases set up," was Wesker's reply as Ada heard him limping off pass them and into some other place, which Ada figured was probably the outside.
Once the commotion died down, Ada stood up and surveyed the room. She needed to get out now. Wesker wouldn't even know that she was missing and then she could go and find the others that she was hearing so much about lately.
Ada's eyes rested on the chair that was tucked behind the desk. She went over to it and picked it up with ease then swung it over her head. She took the chair and smashed it on the door, only to find that the door didn't even budge one bit. Ada tried again and found that it was just useless, plus she was making too much noise and if Wesker got back and heard her she would be in trouble.
So Ada sat herself back on the ground and began to ponder if she would even be lucky enough to get out of here and be free. Something clicked in her mind that instant as she vividly remembered that young girl kick down the door, so why couldn't she?
She went back to the door and stood in front of it before she raised her leg and got ready to land a kick on the wooden obsticle that just wouldn't grant her the freedom she wanted. There was a funny feeling welling up in her leg. Ada had enough and aimed a kick at the door and was surprised when it actually went down under the impact.
Ada didn't waste any time. She grabbed some objects that she had fashioned to be used as weapons and dashed through the doorway and out into the vacant hallway. She took a deep breath then proceeded to check some of the doors that were close by.
The first one was the door that was to the right of the room, the one that Wesker had come out of previously. Ada entered with caution then quickly checked the room over a couple of times before she spotted the monitor with the different camera views in them. Ada thought for a moment that she could make it look like she was in there but what could she do with the door? So Ada ignored the monitor and quickly made her way to Wesker's desk.
Of course it was black, like everything esle happened to be in this room. Ada checked the drawers and found nothing that really concerned her. She came across the last one that was located just above the opening for the chair to tucked under. Ada opened it and to her delight, found a handgun with several clips of ammo beside it.
There was a noise from outside of the room. Ada ran out and hid around a corner and watched as a gray colored creature staggered down the hallway. It looked at the door in a funny way before going into the door directly across from Wesker's office.
Ada waited several minutes before it reappeared and went back down the way that it had come from. She decided to go and see what was in the room and brought upher newly found weapon just inncase some one caught her and she would have to use something to silence them, the handgun being that.
The room was dark. There was no light whatsoever and Ada had no idea what was in store for her. She felt around the room until her fingers rested upon a lightswitch. With one quick flick the lights were on, giving away what was in the room.
Ada couldn't believe her luck. It was another person. She walked up to the man that was sitting in a chair andbound in thick ropes with duct tape over his mouth to serve as a gag. Adacurled her fingers around the corner of the duct tape and pulled back, the man releasing a scream in the process that was quickly silenced when Ada pointed her gun to his head as an indication that he should shut up.
"Who are you?" Ada asked once the man calmed down some what.
"Who the hell are you?" The man spat back at Ada. "Another one of his horrid beasties? Or perhaps you're here to finally finish me off as I was just promised."
"Sorry, no can do. I'm trying to get out of this place."
The man in the chair was taken aback. He quickly recovered and became very serious.
"Let me out."
"You never told me who you were."
"I'm the President, or at least I used to be. And who are you."
"Ada Wong, ex employee of Wesker."
"You mean you're telling me that you used to work for that guy?"
"Does it matter?" Ada said as she unbound the president. "Let's get outta here before he decides to come back."
They left the room as quick as possible, having to slow down because the president wasn't in the best of shape. They came to the corner that Ada had hidden behind. They rounded it and were glad to know that there were no nasty surprised waiting there for them.
"Where exactly are we going?" The president asked as they jogged down the dark hallway.
"First we have to find some stairs or something to get down a couple more floors before we climb out a window and jump out."
"Are you crazy? I'm not cut out for this."
"We don't have any other choice. It's going to be hard enough to just get down from this floor so shut up."
The president was shocked, but so was Ada. After all she had just told the president to shut up, that wasn't something she got to do every day and soon wished she could.
Their flight to escape went in silence as Ada had intended. The president found a set of stairs so they took those, having not come across an elevator of any sort.
The stairwell was dark and gloomy. Their shoes made clanking noises as they made contact with the concrete stairs. After the first flight of them, Ada stopped when she saw one of the gray creatures comming towards them but she quickly solved the problem by rushing past it and firing lead into the back of it's head, creating no blood splatter as a result to being injected with the virus. It was a good thing because nobody would notice the blood, thus making Ada a little less calm that the other things that lurked around wouldn't become suspicious.
Ada and the president went down the second flight of stairs without much of a problem and were already two floors below the one that they had both been held captive on. As they ran down the end of the hall, Ada spotted a window, being the one to lead them around the place.
"Okay, you stand guard while I check this out and see if we can make it," Ada instructed as she started prying the screen off the window and opened it.
Ada glanced down. Things maybe were going to be going her way for once. They were close enough to the ground that they shouldn't break any bones. There was grass below the window and not pavement, which was pretty damn lucky for them.
"Mr. President if you will," Ada signaled to the window and stepped away while the president readied himself for the drop that was aout twenty feet.
President Grahm went over the side of the window and landed without any trouble on the grass. He waved up to Ada and then waited nervously for the woman in the red dress to jump out herself.
The wind roared in her ears for a split second before she landed on the ground beside the president. Ada grabbed her gun and checked the area. There was nothing around that could cause any harm and there was no sign of Wesker either, so Ada guessed he must've been somewhere trying to keep the virus in check.
"Let's get out of this hell," Ada directed her voice towards the president before they began to head to the outskirts of Raccoon City, always remembering to keep hidden so no one or nothing spotted them trying to escape.
Ada looked towards the sun that she hadn't seen from outside of the window for so long and smiled, knowing that she would get her freedom soon enough.
Wesker stood in a lab, clad in a white lab coat with his sunglasses still on like they always were. His hand grasped a tiny vile that contained a substance that would cease the side effects to the Infinity virus.
He cursed himself for underestimating the power of the virus. He never thought that it would effect him so much and was now attatching a needle point to the vile and several other things. He brought the needle point to his reddish skin that seemed to want to burn away at the touch of the metal. Wesker ignored his body's protest and plunged the medication into his bloodstream.
He could feel the liquid do its job as the pain seemed to vanish. Wesker grinned evily before he turned around and made his way back to his office where he planned to think of the fate of the president and Ada.
However his infected body would not be put in control so easily, not without a fight. Wesker felt the pain highten as he watched behind his shades as his skin went red and purple viens seemed to grow underneith the skin. His vision went red for a second, as did his eye color before it went away just as fast as it had begun, leaving Wesker with a warning.
He forgot about it and headed upstairs. When he got to the hallway several men with their weird gray skin color greeted him and didn't look all that happy.
"Sir, we just got news that the girl you sent in to destroy the enemy has been killed."
"So that's what happened to her," Wesker thought out loud. He then turned his attention towards the man who had just spoken. "It doesn't matter now, any other news to report?"
"The group is on their way,sir. It would help out a lot if you were there."
Wesker let them leave before he withdrew his own weapon and followed the gray men from a far ways away.
It was almost time to wipe Leon and the others out. And what joy that would be.
Hours after hours passed and none of them seemed to beable to get some sleep or relax none the less. They all knew that what happened when the sun rose would end a lot of things, they would bring down the virus that they knew nothing about except for what you became once injected with it, all the violence that they had to endure, and all the deaths of their friends that had been taken away from them.
The tiny flame of the fire flickered once, twice, three times before finally dying out. The sky became lighter and the stars in the hald cloudy sky started to fade. Warm temperatures started to arise as the colder ones of the night seemed to sink into the ground and go into hiding.
Leon got up and began pacing. He would get Ada back and then what? He still had to get Ashley back to her father, if he was still alive. How would things be after all this? So many questions ran through his head like a river and it was driving Leon crazy as his pacing grew until Jill had to stop him.
Everyone loaded their guns with all the ammo they could muster as well as stuffing many more clips in their free pockets need they have to use more. Jill packed along some medical supplys, knowing all too well that they would have to use them if it was Wesker that they were going up against. Ashley practiced reloading her gun as quickly as she could, having never gotten used to doing it over their entire travel. Michael was talking to Leon before they went up to Jill and Ashley and informed them that it was time to go.
The golden sun began to rise, its warm rays lightening everyone's mood, although it couldn't be helped to feel a bit angry at all the death and destruction the virsu had created. A single star was still visible in the clear morning sky before it finally started to fade as well as the sliver of the moon.
The four people began their journey towards Raccoon City once more, this time closer than ever.